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Amortize vs Conviviality - What's the difference?

amortize | conviviality |

As a verb amortize

is to alienate (property) in mortmain.

As a noun conviviality is

(uncountable) the state of being convivial.

amortize

English

(wikipedia amortize) (Amortized analysis)

Alternative forms

* amortise

Verb

(amortiz)
  • To alienate (property) in mortmain.
  • To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 318:
    • extraordinary borrowing had been so extensive, Joly de Fleury reckoned, that even if it were amortized over the following decade, the state would still be running an annual deficit of over 50 million livres.
  • (computer science) To even out the costs of running an algorithm over many iterations, so that high-cost iterations are much less frequent than low-cost iterations, which lowers the average running time per iteration.

    • Antonyms

    * accrue

    Anagrams

    * atomizer ----

    conviviality

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being convivial
  • * 2009 , Gary Clark, Quadrant , November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 8:
    • He will not abide intellectually lazy thinking or any form of acquiescence to political correctness and its facile rituals of politeness and forced conviviality .
  • (countable) A jovial spirit or activity